Team IMPACT tackles the emotional trauma and social isolation experienced by children facing serious illness and disability by matching them with a college athletic team. Through our two-year therapeutic program that complements their medical treatments, children develop relationships and skills that help them complete the full circle of healing.
Upwards of 20 million kids face serious illness and disability, and none should be forced to the sidelines. Only Team IMPACT tackles the social isolation commonly associated with childhood illness and disability by connecting them with college athletic teams through a two-year therapeutic program—forming lifelong bonds and life-changing outcomes.
Not just making any match. Making the perfect match!
Clinically-informed support ensures that everyone wins.
Therapeutic outcomes are achieved in a non-therapeutic setting.
Graduating from the program with a sense of empowerment, normalization, health promotion, and resilience.
See what happens when your child is treated like a teammate—not just a patient.
Apply Today Sign A ChildMake the difference for a sick child simply by doing what you already do best—rallying as a team.
Apply TodayWith your help, we harness the power of team to build long-lasting relationships that deliver little doses of hope and joy in the form of high-fives and handshakes. Your donation can make a huge impact.
The solidarity of a group provides the strongest protection against despair and the strongest antidote to traumatic experience. Trauma isolates; the group re-creates a sense of belonging.
Judith Herman MD / Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
